Eleventh Conference on Legal Translation, Court Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics (Legal Linguistics) / The 17th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law

The Institute of Linguistics at Adam Mickiewicz University will hold an international conference devoted to language and the law. The aim is to provide a forum for discussion in those scientific fields where linguistic and legal interests converge, and to facilitate integration between linguists, computer scientists and lawyers from all around the world. The conference will be held over 3 days, from 24th to 26th June (Friday-Sunday) 2016 in Poznan, Poland. Papers are invited on the following topics:

FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN GENERAL

(comparative) forensic linguistics

forensic phonetics

forensic authorship attribution

forensic stylistic

linguists as expert witnesses

linguistic features of forgeries and counterfeits of public documents

LEGAL TRANSLATION AND COURT INTERPRETING

legal translation;

court interpreting;

teaching legal translation and court interpreting

certified translators and interpreters in legal proceedings

mistranslation and misinterpreting in legal context

LEGAL LANGUAGES AND LEGAL DISCOURSE

legal linguistics

history of legal language

legal terminology

legal genres

EU legal language

analysis of legal discourse

structure and semantics of statutes and other legal instruments;

development of legal languages

legal and linguistic interpretation of texts formulated in legal language

Theme: The development of legal language and its interpretation; linguistic and pragmatic aspects of the evolution of the synchronic understanding

The conference addresses issues that concern the current development of theory and method in all the intersections of language with different aspects of law and legal discourse from various legal traditions, languages, and nations.

The topics include, but are not limited to:

Legal language and discourse:
– Intercultural differences in the features that make legal language a sublanguage
– Courtroom language and interpretation
– Plain language movements

Interpretation in religious and historic systems of law:
– Jewish Rabbinic courts and the Halachah
– Jewish Halachah and the Bible
– Roman ecclesiastical courts and Catholic Canon law
– Sharia courts and the Quran and Sunnah
– Law, precedent, and application in historic legal systems

“It is generally accepted in the general public that the legal language spoken in court and written in legal documents is hard or even impossible to understand. Studies show that there are indeed some differences between ordinary and legal language (in particular, in vocabulary and the standards of drafting). However, legal language must appear incoherent to the general public for another reason – in addition to the words used, and their grammatical structure. Legal language must appear incoherent not just because of what is said in this language but also because of what goes in it without saying: the professional legal knowledge presumed, as a rule, in legal texts. This knowledge is presented explicitly only rarely but typical legal texts can be thoroughly understood only if it is regarded as implicit in them.”

Professor Le Cheng (Zhejiang University)

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